All development platforms should be this friendly
Misty’s SDKs are designed for easy access to powerful features
Misty’s SDKs allow you to quickly build skills that make use of the unique characteristics of an autonomous, roaming robot with programmable personality.
Misty’s SDKs provide tools that make development easy:
Misty’s SDKs were designed to let you easily build skills for Misty, interact with her and learn more about her capabilities. Her SDKs include Command Center, Skill Runner and API Explorer.
Command Center
Command Center lets you easily send commands to Misty. No code needed here. We’ve done the heavy lifting for you. Once connected, you can experiment with Misty’s functionality by interacting with different elements of the Command Center.
API Explorer
You can use Misty’s API Explorer to browse Misty’s REST API endpoints, send requests to Misty, experiment with different parameters, and generate code samples for Misty’s REST API and on-robot JavaScript API.
Skill Runner
Skill Runner lets you to install, run, and manage skills on Misty. Simply Upload your skill and click start! Misty will then execute your code.
To aid in skill development, you can use the Misty Skills extension for Visual Studio Code. This extension provides a list of the available methods in Misty’s on-robot JavaScript API. It offers auto-complete, tabbed parameter entry, and information about each method. It also provides basic commands for uploading, running, and stopping skills on Misty from within the Visual Studio Code editor.
How does this all work?
You use Misty’s SDKs to write her skills
How do you architect a skill?
Take some of Misty's sensory input
Seeing, hearing, touching (and even smelling and tasting if you add on the right sensors)
Process it
on or off the robot
Misty is a very capable edge-computing device, but cloud services are just a call away
Have Misty do something in response
Drive to check out a sound, express amusement, take a photo, or anything you like
Show me a skill?
Here’s a very quick runnable example:
Javascript
// Start driving
misty.DriveTime(10, 0, 10000);
// Register to know when Misty discovers objects at a given distance
misty.AddPropertyTest(“FrontTOF”, “SensorPosition”, “==”, “Center”,
“string”);
misty.AddPropertyTest(“FrontTOF”, “DistanceInMeters”, “<=”, 0.2,
“double”);
misty.RegisterEvent(“FrontTOF”, “TimeOfFlight”);
// When we find an object at the distance we want, do stuff!
function _FrontTOF(data) {
// Store the data
let frontTOF = data.PropertyTestResults[0].PropertyParent;
// Log where the object was detected
misty.Debug(“Distance: ” + frontTOF.DistanceInMeters);
misty.Debug( “Sensor Position: ” + frontTOF.SensorPosition);
// Take action
misty.Stop();
misty.ChangeLED(255, 0, 0); // Red for stop
}
.NET
public void OnStart(object sender, IDictionary<string, object> parameters)
{
// Listen for ToF events
Misty.TimeOfFlightEventReceived += async (s, e) =>
{
// Filter for front center sensor
if(e.SensorPosition == TimeOfFlightPosition.FrontCenter && e.DistanceInMeters <= 0.2) {
// Send some debug messages for listening clients to consume
await Misty.SendDebugMessageAsync(“Distance: ” + e.DistanceInMeters);
await Misty.SendDebugMessageAsync(“Sensor Position: ” + e.SensorPosition);
// Take action
await Misty.StopAsync(); await Misty.ChangeLEDAsync(255, 0, 0); } }; Misty.DriveTime(10, 0, 10000, (r) =>
{
// TODO: I’ve stopped, now what?
});
}
Misty II Application Templates
An Open Source Inititive
Put Misty to work quickly. Misty II Application Templates provide developers with a great starting point for building out skills and broader use cases. Each template provides the code to get started and an implementation guide. This is an open source initiative seeded by Misty Robotics. Templates will be expanded, supported and maintained by the Misty developer community.
Misty II as a Concierge
The concierge template leverages Misty’s ability to detect humans in her presence, localize to their location, greet them and let them know how she can help and provide responses to their questions leveraging your integration to a third party database. Developers can extend the core information sharing skill with other capabilities like reservations and orders integrating with a point of sale system or call for assistance integrating with communication APIs.
Quick reads about developing for a robot platform
Robot Skills & Messaging APIs
What Goes into Building a Robot
